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HUMOR YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM HOUSTON IF . . . . .



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the following comes courtesy of my sister-n-law

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM HOUSTON IF . . . . .
The "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes.

You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days after a
low of 29 degrees.

Everybody has a story of the Flying Roach the size of the Taco Bell
Chihuahua.

When you see your neighbor dancing around the front yard, you don't
think he's won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes; you know that
he just stepped in a fire ant bed.

You're on your way to work one FEBRUARY morning and suddenly you're
trapped in a traffic jam caused by a chuck wagon and fifty horses - with
riders - and you look around to see that everybody in the trucks around
you is wearing a cowboy hat.

The name "Bud Adams" makes people snarl, and "Bum Phillips" doesn't mean
bad screwdriver.

"Luv ya Blue" still makes you smile, even if you did run the Oilers out
of town.

You know that the Astrodome will always be the Eighth Wonder of the
World.

You come to work in short sleeves and walk out at noon to find that a
"blue norther" has blown through and the temperature has dropped 40
degrees.

Your neighbor's Christmas yard decorations are a re-creation of the
gunfight at the OK Corral, complete with a ten-foot tree decorated with
boots and cowboy hats, and a Santa Claus who looks a lot like wyatt
Earp.

You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs
because they're written in Asian characters instead of English, but you
don't care because you can get great prices on fake designer
merchandise.

You go to an art festival and you're almost run down by handholding
cross dressers on roller blades.
You hear everything but English spoken when you go to the Galleria to
window shop. (You can't afford to buy because the prices are jacked up
for all the foreign tourists.)

You know that "Dad gummit" has nothing to do with your father's failure
to practice good dental hygiene.

You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're referring to more
than one person.

For a Chili Cook off, you'll use anything from armadillo to frog's legs,
but you know that the only GOOD chili is made with chopped - not ground
beef, and it has NO beans and NO tomatoes.

Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960 is not the
year.

Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big hair and faces that
have gone east, west, and north rather than south.

You can leave your house, head out of town, and an hour later you still
haven't left the city limits. (During rush hour, you haven't left your
NEIGHBORHOOD.)

You've never seen I-45 and I-10 in any condition other than under
construction - and you've lived here for more than 30 years. .

You know that "Clutch City" has nothing to do with automobile
transmissions.

"The Dream" is not a fantasy.

The only REAL Mexican food is Tex-Mex.

A 747 with the Space Shuttle riding piggyback has actually flown low
right overhead, and nobody paid any attention to it.

You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac" has amassed more
than the U.S. treasury.

You're happy to have beaten Los Angeles out of a football team, but
you'd rather they keep the title of "Smog Capital."

You see nothing unusual about an eighty-something former sheriff's
deputy who wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sunglasses,
mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic
surgeries, seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and
screams,
"MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, iiiii-witness news" into a television camera every
night.

But some folks are still upset with him for shutting down the Chicken
Ranch.

If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a GOOD hair day.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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